Kidnapping

The forcible abduction or stealing away of a man, woman or child from their own country, and sending them into another. It is an offense punishable at the common law by fine and imprisonment.

4 Bl. Comm. 219.

In American law, this word is seldom, if at all, applied to the abduction of other persons than children, and the intent to send them out of the country does not seem to constitute a necessary part ot the offense. The term is said to include false imprisonment.

2 Bish. Crim. Law, § 671. See Sinte v. Rollins, 8 N. H. 567 ; State v. Sutton. 116 Ind. 527, 19 N. E. 602; Dehn v. Mandeville, 68 Hun. 335, 22 N. Y. Supp. 984; People v. De Leon. 109 N. Y. 226, 16 N. E. 46, 4 Am. St Rep. 444; People v. Fick, 89 Cal. 144, 26 Pac. 759.